Edward O’Rourke is not a name you expect to encounter in the history of Eastern Europe, yet he is a celebrated figure in the Polish city of Gdansk for the role he played in opposing the rise of the Nazis in the city in the 1930s.
In this episode I am joined by the Irish Times journalist Derek Scally to explore the life of Edward O'Rourke which was in a word unique. This episode reveals why a man born near Minsk in the Russian Empire in 1876 was named O’Rourke and how he went to oppose Fascism at a time when many of his contemporaries were supporting Hitler.
This is the image at the start of the show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Landmesser#/media/File:August-Landmesser-Almanya-1936.jpg
Follow Derek on twitter - @DerekinBerlin
Articles references in the podcast
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/irishman-honoured-in-polish-city-where-he-warned-of-nazi-danger-1.642893 -
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2023/07/04/sean-lester-and-edward-phelan-irish-world-leaders/
Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/irishhistory.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Irish Fascist Partisan (Partisans #2)
Partisans#1 The Long Road to Stalingrad: The Origins of the Spanish Civil War
Rescuing History: The Four Courts Explosion
The Partisans Are Coming!
The Mater Hospital: Where History is Made
Muriel McSwiney: A Forgotten Revolutionary
Winners & Losers - How the Great Hunger Ended
Jack the Ripper & Irish Connections
Brehon Law: From Divorce to Irish Sex Magic
Was The Great Famine a Genocide? | The Great Famine XXXIII
Three Lives, Three Deaths & One Life Unlived
Landlords & Mass Evictions - Exploiting the Great Hunger | The Great Famine XXXII
The Beginning of the End & Queen Victoria in Ireland (1849) | The Great Famine XXXI
Tyranny, Cruelty & Inhumanity - Surviving the Workhouse | The Famine in Clogheen II | The Great Famine XXX
Corn, Gunpowder & Class Conflict | The Famine in Clogheen I | The Great Famine XXIX
The Hellfire Club - Debauchery in The Dublin Mountains
Nebraska - Irish Emigrants Surviving on The Frontier
The Last of Her Kind | Peig Sayers II
The Last of Her Kind | Peig Sayers I
A Very Irish Murder in Cincinnati
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
It’s a Continent
Witness History: Black history
Black History for White People
The Black and Irish Podcast
Stuff The British Stole